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Braintree, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for coordinating council's response to asylum and migration issues, focusing on those arising from Wethersfield Asylum Accommodation Centre.Lead on developing and implementing effective communications for internal and external audiences including staff, residents and local communities, businesses, partners, government agencies, members, stakeholders and media.Co-ordinate and support the Multi Agency Forum to influence the safe operation of Wethersfield, ensuring… Show more Responsible for coordinating council's response to asylum and migration issues, focusing on those arising from Wethersfield Asylum Accommodation Centre.Lead on developing and implementing effective communications for internal and external audiences including staff, residents and local communities, businesses, partners, government agencies, members, stakeholders and media.Co-ordinate and support the Multi Agency Forum to influence the safe operation of Wethersfield, ensuring effective collaboration and efficient management of government grant, development and implementation of policies, strategies, and initiatives that address the safe operation of the asylum centre and surrounding area. Show less

Braintree, England, United Kingdom

Developed and championed a comprehensive communications strategy for the Wethersfield Asylum Accommodation Centre, the UK's largest facility of its kind.Strategic Communications: Provide strategic communications guidance to authority directors, the Home Office, site operators, and other key stakeholders, ensuring clear, consistent messaging.Crisis Communications: Manage crisis communications, swiftly addressing and mitigating issues to protect and enhance the council's… Show more Developed and championed a comprehensive communications strategy for the Wethersfield Asylum Accommodation Centre, the UK's largest facility of its kind.Strategic Communications: Provide strategic communications guidance to authority directors, the Home Office, site operators, and other key stakeholders, ensuring clear, consistent messaging.Crisis Communications: Manage crisis communications, swiftly addressing and mitigating issues to protect and enhance the council's reputation.Media Relations: Collaborate with media outlets and external stakeholders to ensure accurate and balanced reporting, positioning the council positively in a sensitive area of national policy. Show less

Shoreditch, England, United Kingdom

Doubled annual turnover to £3.2m and increased department headcount from 8 to 24 while leading 'customer first' alignment initiative, shaping internal communications strategy and creating roadmap for success.Delivered exceptional brand experience through determining department objectives with directors, project managing market-leading initiatives and utilising data analysis from retail operations, customer engagement and digital marketing streams.Established social media… Show more Doubled annual turnover to £3.2m and increased department headcount from 8 to 24 while leading 'customer first' alignment initiative, shaping internal communications strategy and creating roadmap for success.Delivered exceptional brand experience through determining department objectives with directors, project managing market-leading initiatives and utilising data analysis from retail operations, customer engagement and digital marketing streams.Established social media strategy and established excellent links with broadcasters, influencers, celebrities and football teams to cement market-leader status, further marketing strategy and capture new business. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Launched world's biggest vintage football shirt company's retail operation, establishing store internationally as the destination for broadcasters, fan groups and influencers.Identified optimal store location, designed layout, recruited workforce and established working procedures.Created offline and online retail marketing strategy by researching and outlining user personas and determining tracking guidelines, setting metric-driven goals to achieve growthGrew social… Show more Launched world's biggest vintage football shirt company's retail operation, establishing store internationally as the destination for broadcasters, fan groups and influencers.Identified optimal store location, designed layout, recruited workforce and established working procedures.Created offline and online retail marketing strategy by researching and outlining user personas and determining tracking guidelines, setting metric-driven goals to achieve growthGrew social media following to 45,000 organically from scratch across four platforms, implementing best-practice techniques and developing content calendar Show less

Shoreditch, London

Founded Taste This Beer London, a unique self-pouring beer tasting experience allowing customers to pour their own drinks using cards loaded with credit thanks to RFID technology.The novel pop-up concept had 32 self-pour taps, the biggest such installation in the UK.Specialising in Belgian beers, the concept virtually eliminated the need for bar staff and provided a unique drinking experience.Taste This Beer London ran in two Shoreditch locations and as owner of the… Show more Founded Taste This Beer London, a unique self-pouring beer tasting experience allowing customers to pour their own drinks using cards loaded with credit thanks to RFID technology.The novel pop-up concept had 32 self-pour taps, the biggest such installation in the UK.Specialising in Belgian beers, the concept virtually eliminated the need for bar staff and provided a unique drinking experience.Taste This Beer London ran in two Shoreditch locations and as owner of the business, I was responsible for everything from marketing to procurement. Show less

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Led team of 15 to generate 4.5 million page views and 12,000 video initiates monthly for the daily newspaper Cambridge News, and its three sister weekly newspapers.Established web-first content strategy, championing best practice for content curation, social media marketing and data analyticsConducted bi-daily meetings to create daily, weekly and longer-term strategies, monitoring performance and stakeholder engagement alongside real-time and long-tail analytics… Show more Led team of 15 to generate 4.5 million page views and 12,000 video initiates monthly for the daily newspaper Cambridge News, and its three sister weekly newspapers.Established web-first content strategy, championing best practice for content curation, social media marketing and data analyticsConducted bi-daily meetings to create daily, weekly and longer-term strategies, monitoring performance and stakeholder engagement alongside real-time and long-tail analytics. Introduced one-to-one meetings for reporters to help their development.Chaired weekly meetings between editorial, sales and marketing departments to share knowledge and identify mutual opportunities.Deputised for the editor-in-chief and executive editors to edit newspaper in their absence. Show less

Hertford

Seconded to the Hertfordshire Mercury Series to implement Trinity Mirror's newsroom 3.1 digital first strategy for team of nine reporters working across nine editions of three newspapers.Streamlined working processes, revamped social media strategy and oversaw the newsroom's integration within Trinity Mirror's East/South East division.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Directed the editorial team for essexlive.news, the county's leading news website with 3.5 million monthly page views.Responsible for instilling and upholding best digital practice across the brands, championing live reporting and using tools such as Facebook Live to tell the story across a number of formats.Worked with sales and marketing departments to identify and pursue new business opportunities.Deputised for the brand editor in his absence to manage two weekly… Show more Directed the editorial team for essexlive.news, the county's leading news website with 3.5 million monthly page views.Responsible for instilling and upholding best digital practice across the brands, championing live reporting and using tools such as Facebook Live to tell the story across a number of formats.Worked with sales and marketing departments to identify and pursue new business opportunities.Deputised for the brand editor in his absence to manage two weekly newspapers to production. Show less

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Led team of 12 to produce 55 weekly print news pages and 1.4 million monthly page views online, as well as running Facebook (30,000) and Twitter (25,000) accounts.Collaborated with sales and marketing teams to retain customers and identify new revenue opportunities, representing the brand at networking events.Led bi-daily conferences to grow essexchronicle.co.uk's 350,000 weekly pageviews, creating daily, weekly and long-term strategies.Introduced weekly one-to-one… Show more Led team of 12 to produce 55 weekly print news pages and 1.4 million monthly page views online, as well as running Facebook (30,000) and Twitter (25,000) accounts.Collaborated with sales and marketing teams to retain customers and identify new revenue opportunities, representing the brand at networking events.Led bi-daily conferences to grow essexchronicle.co.uk's 350,000 weekly pageviews, creating daily, weekly and long-term strategies.Introduced weekly one-to-one sessions with all reporters to help their development, as well manage trainees' logbooks.Deputised for the editors of Essex Chronicle and Brentwood Gazette in their absence. Show less

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Headed up a team of six reporters on one of Britain's best weekly newspapers.Generated several exclusive stories and deputised in the editor's absence to task reporters with stories and co-ordinate daily and weekly publication strategies.Co-ordinated website and social media strategy when the digital publisher was away.

Hertford

General news reporter tasked with generating copy and pictures for print and online.Credited with boosting circulation due to compelling content and introducing drop-in sessions for members of the public to meet me, an initiative subsequently adopted across the newspaper.

Various

Crown Media is a media simulation training consultancy working primarily with the MoD and NATO.Jobs diversified from embedding on NATO warships for two weeks to one-day Home Office national counter-terrorism exercises.Worked as a print reporter, photojournalist and built secure pseudo-news websites to accompany media exercises.

War Studies

Master Of Arts - Ma, Periodical Journalism, Merit